Re: How many colorForthers to screw in a lightbulb -- could it throw some light for those in the darkness?
Jason Kemp <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:38:37 +0000
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Dear Ray & all, That leads me into a question I want to ask all. Ray St. Marie said the following on 11/03/2008 05:04: > colorForthers don't screw in lightbulbs. > First, the get a peice of tungstan together often using peices found > in old lightbulbs. > Then, they hold the ends of the tungstan up against the solder that > accumulates around the socket contacts and turn on the juice hopping > the tungstan will solder itself in place. > ...And then when when someone new stumbles on the colorForth lighting approach, he reads that a couple of dozen people got their bulbs working in different ways. So he has a go, and after hours he finds it just won't work. When he asks he is kindly told that, of course, he needs a vacuum too (doh) but many different vacuums are readily available on obscure ftp sites... OK, so I'm not a comedian! But, I have found historical evidence of wikis for colorForth: Sleepless Nights, Quartus, Kristopherjohnson. Is there currently a working one? I think there isn't :-( I mean I have notes that I want to share and it seems a waste just to keep my notebook to myself, but I don't want to reproduce documentation others have already provided. Thanks, Jason